Richmond, LA 71282 Frost Dates
71282, near Richmond, LA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/02, roughly 186 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/24, roughly 271 days after the last spring frost.
Richmond sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Richmond's growing season runs out in roughly 13 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Richmond's last frost
03/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Richmond against the rest of the dataset
About 271 days separate Richmond's last and first frost, putting it 5,470 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 345 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71282: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Richmond's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Richmond's dates instead of trusting one.